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...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...
...late, and chord by chord the booming of the bell-batteries is being silenced. The taxi has found a new perch at the corner, ready to pounce out at the customer's slightest beckoning. Packard, Pierce, Lincoln, and Buick have sought refuge a block away, their white tires carefully left an inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women...
...Cannibal Carnival" was written by a London taxi driver, Herbert Hodges A farce on current events in the political and social world, the play is notable for its leftist leaning in addition to considerable frankness. The Faculty advisory committee to the Dramatic Club were favorably impressed by the play when submitted to them. Harvard Dean's office also expressed its approval...
Paris publishers, much like tooting Paris taxi drivers, are in a perpetual dither. With less than half New York City's 7,400,000 population, Paris tries to support 120 newspapers to New York City's 24. Most of the Parisian papers are party organs, constantly in hot financial water. None is making money on its journalistic merits alone. The thriving Paris Soir is owned by Billionaire Henri Beghin, French beet sugar and paper tycoon, and by Textile Tycoon Jean Prouvost. The dull Temps is the handmaiden of the heavy industries. Still another few, like Communist Humanite have...
With a good pick up on your car you can hit a pedestrian at twenty paces.* There are more taxi drivers than students, and more yard cops than professors. In President Wigglesworth's time the college played a man $2000 a year to mow grass in front of Lehman Hall, which was then a stable. The man's name was Harvard, and he had a square wooden leg, and consequently when he came to the end of the lawn, he could only turn a sharp corner. These sharp corners formed a square, which came to be called "Harvard's Square...